It began here!
A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blow-out of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum
* 5 completely new levels - Swamps, Red Forest, Ruined Hospital, Limansk and Military Ordnance Yard
* 8 significantly re-designed levels from the original game - Cordon, Garbage, Dark Valley, Agroprom, Agroprom, Undergrounds, Yantar, Military and Statio
* 10 hours of the main plotline gameplay
* Weapon and armor upgrades
* 36 weapon types
* Possibility to fix weapons
* Updated concepts of anomalies and artifacts - rare anomalies cannot be seen and are discovered using detectors